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labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task …
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labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552558
sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …
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, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and intrasectoral … cost of offshoring affects jobs and unemployment. We also show that the implications of a reduction in the cost of trading … labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation of jobs …
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unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and … increases unemployment. In this situation, in the absence of any government intervention globalization not only reduces the … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect …
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sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …
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sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …
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sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691678
sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …
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unemployment both in the North and in the South. There are two effects of FDI on unemployment, a direct positive one which … means higher innovation, this intensifies firm turnover and increases the unemployment rates in both countries even further … relation. In addition to FDI, I explore how intellectual property (IP) rights protection affects unemployment and welfare. Both …
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